Subject: TAKE CHARGE SUCCESS STRATEGIES
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Volume 1, Number 5 June 25, 2001
Publisher: Jo Condrill Condrill@goalminds.com
http://www.goalminds.com
Copyright 2001 Jo Condrill All rights reserved
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IN THIS ISSUE
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1. Choose Your Words
2. Participate in Decision Making
3. Heroes - He Ran Half Way Around the World
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"The person who thinks but cannot express what he thinks is at the level of those who cannot think." --Pericles
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1. CHOOSE YOUR WORDS
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Describe what you do in 25 words or less. Have you ever been challenged to reduce to a few words a multitude of thoughts and feelings? Recently, I've had opportunities to advertise our books and tapes in catalogs which would reach thousands of people. Choosing the most meaningful and powerful 25 words, or one sentence, seemed like an impossible task.
Business people and professional speakers are often challenged to present their message in 30-second sound bites. Sometimes this is referred to as your "elevator speech." Are you satisfied with the messages you are sending?
Take time to think of your purpose. Use simple, precise words. Write them down and then rewrite until you have a powerful statement that represents who you are and what you do. We often diminish the impact of our message by adding phrases like, "I think," "maybe," or "shouldn't we?" When we end our sentences with what sounds like a question, instead of dropping our voices at the period, we appear to be asking permission. While this was first deemed to be a habit of young women, it has been discovered that it is a failing in many men and mature women, as well. A tape recorder, used with discretion, can help you detect your own style. Record bits of conversation, play it back in private as a learning tool, then erase the tape.
Why not take a few minutes right now and write down a powerful message about yourself or your business? Then commit it to memory and you will be prepared next time an opportunity presents itself.
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2. PARTICIPATE IN DECISION-MAKING
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At the end of each year most of us begin thinking of New Year's Resolutions and how we want our lives to change in the coming year. Something invariably intervenes and we never seem to quite get what we want. At the beginning of the year 2002, we will be offering a RETREAT and we'd like your help.
A RETREAT is stepping back away from a routine. It is going within and taking time to think, to plan, to refocus or to just relax and feel rejuvenated. It is two or three days set aside so that participants can relax, network, and feel revitalized! All of us need such times in our lives. A quiet time away from the routine; an energizing time of stretching muscle, mind, and spirit. A happy time of meeting people and forming lasting relationships. All of these come together for you in a well-planned retreat presented by a master meeting planner, Allegra Bowman, with Jo Condrill lining up the program.

Here's an opportunity for you to help plan this very exciting event. The first five who respond will receive a FREE copy of the hard cover book which was described by the president of the Association of Image Consultants International as "a masterpiece," A Millennium Primer: TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR LIFE! Everyone who responds will receive one of the very popular "DO NOT DISTURB--Thinking!" door-knob hangers.
Please take time to answer these few questions. This will help us fine-tune an agenda that will more surely satisfy most people.

Please complete the following and return it to me not later than July 9, 2001.
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On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being lowest and 10 being highest, please rank each item

What are your areas of interest?

_____TIME MANAGEMENT
_____STRESS MANAGEMENT
_____COMMUNICATIONS
_____GOAL SETTING
_____MONEY MANAGEMENT
_____IMPROVING APPEARANCE
_____SPIRITUAL GROWTH
_____Resume writing AND interviews
_____Entrepreneurship
_____Massage/Spa/exercise
_____Recreation e.g. golf, tennis swimming
_____Other areas which you would like to see included ______________________________________________

FACILITIES
_____Studio City, CA
_____Los Angeles
_____Palm Springs, CA
_____San Francisco
_____Hollywood, CA
_____New York
_____Other __________________________________________
_____Need child care

TIME INVESTED
_____Friday evening, Sat. & Sun
_____Sat and Sunday
_____riday and Saturday
_____Thursday evening, Friday & Sat
_____Friday, Saturday, and Sunday

COST
_____Under $500
_____$500-$1,000
_____$1,000-$2,000
_____Price is no object

PLEASE TELL US ABOUT YOURSELF (not on a scale of 1 to 10!)
Age:
_____20-30
_____31-40
_____41-50
_____Over 50

BUSINESS
_____Owner
_____Manager
_____Mid-level manager
_____Employee
_____Domestic engineer
(stay-at-home Mom or Dad)
_____Retired
_____Looking for employment
_____Looking for a better-paying job
_____Looking for more rewarding, satisfying work
_____Looking for a way to simplify my life
_____Other

INCOME RANGE
_____Under $25,000
_____$25-50,000
_____50-75,000
_____over 75,000

LOCATION - I live in
_____Metropolitan area
_____Suburbs
_____Country

I work in
_____Metropolitan area
_____Suburbs
_____Country

My commute to work is
_____Work at home
_____Less than 30 minutes
_____An hour or more

NAME:___________________________________________________ADDRESS:________________________________________________
PHONE: _________________________________________________
EMAIL______________________________________
WEB SITE ___________________________________

Please act right away. Mark the survey, then mailto:condrill@goalminds.com or print it out and fax it back to 661 273-0760. We sincerely appreciate your input.
Thanks!
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"Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you
never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch --
what makes you go beyond the norm." - Cicely Tyson
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3. HEROES - HE RAN HALF WAY AROUND THE WORLD!
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In 1989, William M. Causey, Jr. gave me, a civilian woman, my first supervisory job with Army Headquarters in the Pentagon. He's been running ever since!

Not really, he was running even before then. Colonel Causey was one of those dedicated military officers who work long, intense hours. He, like most of the officers there, belonged to the Pentagon Officers Athletic Club, the POAC. Many arrived in the wee hours of the morning to run--along the Potomac River, across Memorial Bridge, around the Lincoln Memorial, along the mall to the Washington Monument, past the Jefferson Memorial, across the 14th Street Bridge crossing the Potomac, and back to work…after a shower, naturally. Of course the route varied, but the results were the same. As COL Causey said, "I have never had a problem that did not at least seem less significant after I finished a run."

COL Causey consistently kept a journal. He had hundreds of steno pads chronicling his years. They were often helpful in reconstructing things that had transpired for annual reports. Among the unclassified notes, he annotated the miles he ran. Recently he counted 12, 500 miles, equivalent to running half way around the world! He began keeping a daily record of his running in 1983, he said, and has kept an almost daily accounting since then. He credits his wife, Jennifer, with inspiring him to keep running since she walks every day.

Bill Causey, now retired from the military, has been an inspiration to many to stay physically fit. His constancy of purpose is commendable; his achievement remarkable!
His next goal? to finish the trip around the world "in much less than 18 years." Perhaps you'd like to send a congratulatory note to Colonel Causey.

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